Areas of expertise

Nationalism and Social Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean / African Diaspora in Latin America / Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean / Latin American and Caribbean Migration / Labor History of the Americas

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Selected Publications

“‘A Greater Enterprise Than the Panama Canal’: Migrant Labor and Military Recruitment in the World War I-Era Circum-Caribbean,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Special Issue: Labor and Empire in the Americas, Vol. 13, no. 3-4 (2016): 57-82.

"Writing War and Empire: Poetry, Patriotism, and Public Claims-Making in the British Caribbean," in Caribbean Military Encounters, ed. Shalini Puri and Lara Putnam (New York: Palgrave MacMillian), forthcoming February 2017.

Review of The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion by John Cullen Gruesser, Journal of African American History, Vol. 101, nos. 1-2 (2016): 185-187.

“Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the New Negro Renaissance in Harlem,” in New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, ed. Christopher Cameron, Keisha Blain, and Ashley Farmer (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press), in revision.